The impact of using Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) on the delivery of New Product Introduction (NPI) Projects on a Large Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Site.

With traditional project management methods, 30% of lost time and resources are typically consumed by wasteful techniques such as bad multitasking (in particular task switching), student syndrome, Parkinson's law, in-box delays, and lack of prioritisation. CCPM seeks to address these issues through application of constraints management and a more manufacturing style approach to project delivery resulting in more efficient project delivery with schedule savings of up to 25% stated by some practitioners.

Because of the potential benefits GSK initiated a pilot programme to identify if CCPM could improve project outcomes compared to their traditional project management approaches. This talk discusses the outcome and learning from this trial.

The event will discuss the outcomes and learning from the trial on new product introduction in the pharmaceutical industry and in particular:

• The importance of the weekly meeting process and how it can drive more flexible / agile approaches to execution
• How CCPM influences mindsets and behaviours within project teams
• How CCPM positively impacts on stakeholder relationships
• Sources of stress and multi-tasking and how CCPM may or may not affect them
• How CCPM can change the Project Manager : Team Member relationship
• Changes to teamworking and problem solving experienced during the pilot
• Issues encountered with scaling out CCPM to multiple projects

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